Oscar goes missing after Academy Award winner is blocked from taking it on flight

Key developments are emerging from the global stage. Oscar goes missing after Academy Award winner is blocked from taking it on flight 58 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Regan Morris Los Angeles Oscar winner Pavel Talankin brought along the award to show university students during a screening in New York Oscar winner Pavel Talankin was forced to check his golden statuette for his documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin at a New York airport - and now it's missing. Talankin says he had the Academy Award in his carry-on bag for a flight to Germany on Wednesday, but airport security stopped him at John F Kennedy International Airport because they said the award could be used as a weapon. But when he landed in Germany, the Oscar was gone.

Lufthansa airlines, which helped him pack the award in a box for the flight since Talankin didn't have a checked bag, said their team is treating the incident with "care and urgency" and they are doing a "comprehensive internal search" for the award. Pavel Talankin The Oscar was packed inside a box so it could be packed under the plane as a checked item "We deeply regret this situation," the airline said in a statement. "Our team is treating this matter with the utmost care and urgency, and we are conducting a comprehensive internal search to ensure the Oscar is found and returned as quickly as possible.

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" The has contacted the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which handles airport security and stopped Talankin from bringing his Oscar in his on-flight bag. The documentary 's executive producer, Robin Hessman, said that she was on speaker phone with Talankin and TSA to help in the airport because Talankin does not speak fluent English. From Mr Nobody to Oscar winner: How one man took on Putin She told the that he'd flown multiple times with his Oscar and also his Bafta, both of which he'd won this year, across the US and on international flights, and never had any issues bringing his Oscar aboard.

"This wouldn't have happened to Leonardo DiCaprio," she said. Talankin, the co-director and protagonist of the Best Feature Documentary winner, travels with the award often to showcase at events at screenings. During this trip in New York, he passed it around an audience of students at a university during a Q&A session after a screening of the documentary.

The has viewed video of Lufthansa staff using tape and bubble wrap to pack the Oscar into a box. An Academy Award stands 13. 5in tall (34cm) and weighs 8.

It reportedly costs from $400 to $1,000 to create the statuette. Mr Nobody Against Putin is a documentary Talankin filmed documenting the ramping up of war propaganda in a Russian school, where he worked, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He is now exiled from Russia for his own safety and living elsewhere in Europe.

The development has drawn wide international attention, with diplomatic circles watching closely.